Cuverville Island and Paradise Bay

Finally! Our 7th continent.

Cuvervile Island is home to the largest Gentoo penguin colony in the Antarctic peninsula. There were lots of icebergs and lots of penguins, including Chinstraps. Everyone was pretty ecstatic. Little did we know, we'd later see hundreds of thousands of penguins, including 6 of the 7 species in Antarctica. I now understand the name of this blog. We found penguins.

After lunch we went to Paradise Bay and stopped at Brown station, an Argentine science station. It was unmanned. Our guide said " Yeah, the Argentines like to build these bases but don't have the money to staff them."

Even though the Antarctic treaty has been in place since 1959, many nations still hold on to their original claims and there's a fair amount of these stations in the Antarctic peninsula. I think it's kind of a back-up plan in case things don't work out in the future.

More photos and videos are here.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/kZLigRgZ1tm5tQAh8

And this is the highlight of the trip: a Southern Right Whale sighting on January 10th. It's so rare for one of them to hang out next to a Zodiac, I'm posting it in every footprint.

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